A new version of Ledger Chrome App allows users to choose the speed for transaction confirmation. If you want to confirm your transaction immediately, you have to pay up to $0.3 USD per 1 KB of your data.

The Russian Censorship committee and web regulator (Roskomnadzor) has included 29 pages of the Onion.to domain into the list of websites forbidden in Russia, the leading Russian media Gazeta.ru reports.

A unique Bitcoin luxury marketplace, BitPremier offers a luxury villa in Verga Messinia for 4,917.831 bitcoins or around €1,200,000. While Greece is suffering a deep debt crisis, bitcoin millionaires are encouraged to buy real estate on the marvellous Greek seaside.

Johann Palychata, a research analyst with BNP Paribas Securities Service designed two different scenarios for the future of the blockchain and bitcoin. He also noted the ongoing success of the digital currency.

Software that use Bitcoin Core 0.9.4 is vulnerable to invalid blocks that were reportedly generated by some miners on 4 and 5 July causing the threat of double spends, an alert on the bitcoin.org states. No fraudulent activity has been reported.